New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-05-18
A SHOCKING STATEMENT.

any clients would not use an advertised medicine
even 1; they knew It would bring the oeao "
life and that nothing else would do IT,"
Those words were spoken by Ne. W. A. burlington
attorney for tho Ncw-YorS County Medical SOCIETY,
I'm a conversation on the subject OF kaskne NO uouoe
no Understood perfectly the weight ana dro Vi wna'
no sad And yet what startling assertion IL ~
rako an illustration. the facts OF which may lie
verified by anybody: Mr.. Frederick A. Miller OF
Va 63O East 157th-st. New-Yorlz, was attacked oy
malaria In 1880. For four years no kept steadnS
Ing worse. Ho took qunine In larger doses from
wear 10 year lie is a wood-carNer, and IN March,
1874 no knocked off work and went home TO be down
Ic, and to die For the two following years his ex-
nerience was terrible. The doses OF quinlne were
increased until he often took thirty grains at once.
II mado him nearly wild He walked or staggered
about tho floor all night long, He ate less IMAM
child From l75 pOunds-his proper welght-he ran
down to 81. Early in 1856 his physician said:
"Mler, I can't do you any good. l might pour
pounds of quInino down your throat and 1t wouldn't
help youn Three weeks afterward his wife saw an
advertisement OF Kashinc. She began giving IL 10
her husband. lie left all other medicine. In one
week no better In one month he was BACK at
work, and in six months he had got back his former
weight 175 pounds, and his old strength to labor
To all these facts there Is a host of witnesses
n is beyond dispute that Kaskino cured Mr.. Miller
and that nothing else did 1T But unfortunately
Kaskine IS an advertised remedy. Now, beyond all
ouestion Mr. Miller would have died had he not taken
Kashinc, yet IL his physician, knowing Its virtues
had desired to prescribe it, he would not have dared
through fear of boycott from his professional broth
zen and of expulsion from tho mcdlch sooio'! W.
which no belongs
Mr. burlington asys: any clients would not use
an advertised medicine even il they knew it would
bring tho dead to life, and that nothing else WOULD
do H."
This IS the same spirit which led to the persecu-
bo naad no discovery
vaccination "a a preventive Of smallpox; tho same
snirlt that rdiculed Harvey when he affirmed the
circulation Of the blood; the same spirit that dsnded
and punished Calico for declaring the revolution Of
tho earth on lts axis.
"scratch a Russian and you viii find Tartar"
said Napoleon. Scratch q modern physician and
with many honorable eXceptiODs-you arc Dkeiy 70
wake up his ancestor, the "mediclne man OIL inc
savages.
Dr. Brown scquard, the famous specialist, sad
.Tbo medical profession IL wrapped up In inc
cloak Of concet a. to permit tho diamond truths OIL
medicine to DO picked up by explorers outside ther
own ranks"
Dr. o. w. Holmes. the witty poetphysician' re-
marks: "Iho medical profession Is as yet sc'f0'S
emerged from the darkness OF baTberism.'
Horace Greeley, discussing this very question:
said: ANY man WHO possesses valuable medicine
or ono no believes 10 be 50, Is In duty boun1 10
mako it public by advertising otherwise
Tho medical profession viii never attain Its iuil use
fulness until IL freely accepts the "damoWd uu'hS'
no matter who first picks them up.
Kaskino, tho new quinnc, Is ono OF those di-o"V'
cries that are made once in a century The doctors
oppo-cd qunino for 100 years and then unNcrsanS
ado ted It. Ka-kinc is certain to supphnt qulhinc
against all oppo.ltion Qulnino Ovcrcane bgotry ana
prciudico by its actual medical qualities kashho
l. superior TO qunine in this respect, ana puohc
oninion has everywhere rendered that verdict
Physicians viii yield to the popular pressure
AMI their own sobcr second thought Mr. PufIhs-
tom can then no longer repeat hi shocking statement
20, cicnt womb not Ne an advertise medicine even
though they knew Il would bring the dead to me-
md that nothing else would do II"